A Secret I'll Tell Nobody Never

Ian, Berit, and Gemini CollisionWorks - theatricals - arts & crafts - creators of LIFE WITH ALTHAAR

[oldshowbiz]

NimoyVision

[excusethequality]

While watching a DVD from the library my TV popped up a message saying to press a button if I wanted to watch this from additional providers.

It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

Why must the future suck SO much?

[excusethequality]

How to Turn Off Smart TV Snooping Features - Consumer Reports

TVs collect a huge amount of data. Here's how to use privacy settings to limit the surveillance on TVs from LG, Samsung, TCL, and every othe

A good rundown on what each brand of TV is up to and which settings you should turn off.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[lytefoot]

PSA - Do not buy an LG smart TV. They just added a line to their terms of use that it's the user's responsibility to inform any guests in their house that by entering they consent to be recorded, in order to comply with wiretapping laws. That thing is literally recording you.

You can find tutorials online telling you how to open that thing up and physically remove the mic and wifi module. Frankly I don't trust anything less.

[mookimooks]

Please watch the Gamers Nexus video on LG Smart TV's and monitors! It's basically malware at this point.

[boudicca]

"i don't care at all about the stock market or know what an estate lawyer is, because i'm not rich 😏" your death will be a nightmare for your loved ones to deal with and their death will be a nightmare for you. if you are an adult i'm not saying you need to have a trustee on standby for your vast fortune but you should at least know what "probate" means

[burins]

this is your reminder that you should make a will. if you are in the US you can make a simple one for free at freewill.com, or willfora.com if you're in Canada. if you need anything complex talk to a lawyer (i promise a consultation with a lawyer is cheaper than probate delays/an extended legal fight.) but these sites will cover your basics (I want my partner to get my car, I want my roommate to get my cat, everything else goes to charity/my other partner/my kids/my next door neighbor who brings me brownies.) the state does not care that you have been estranged from your parents for a decade or have been separated from your spouse the money will go wherever the state says it does UNLESS! you have a will.

freewill also has healthcare directives! if you have ever been concerned about your partner(s) being unable to visit you in the hospital or make medical decisions for you if you are unable to make or communicate your own wishes - especially if you are unmarried/poly - you should have a healthcare directive. they are extremely easy to put together and you can designate multiple people as agents; freewill's tool also lets you designate people you do NOT want making decisions for you (for instance, your very Catholic parents.) if you're outside the US you can search "advanced healthcare directive (country)" and usually find a toolkit; often end of life advocacy-type organizations will have them.

nobody wants to think about these things but even more do you not want your loved ones to have to think about these things, very stressfully and expensively, while they are grieving you. make a will. 🫵

[tumblerculosis]

I’ve been obsessed with this tiktok for days now

[coffeedcait]

Person: "Hello sir." he pets the frog with one finger.

Person: "Have a good day. Actually wait a minute. You missed a bug, but I got you home boy. Hold on." he picks a bug up and throws it next to the frog.

Frog: turns around and eats the bug.

Person: "OHHHHH-" sings high pitched and angelic like he witnessed a miracle.

[depsidase]

[quasi-normalcy]

All of these industries like "comics" and "cinema" that are dying because they presuppose young people will have disposable income

[didanagy]

MOIRA SHEARER as VICTORIA PAGE

THE RED SHOES (1948)

dir. michael powell and emeric pressburger

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[beardedmrbean]

Periscope up

[birds-in-posts]

Green heron (Butorides virescens)

[flareonfloof]

birds have secret bones we're not allowed to know about

[crazy-brazilian]

[3liza]

ME/CFS is not a new illness, although there is a lot of historical evidence that, just like covid-19, the spanish flu epidemic in 1918 was followed by a mass-disabling wave of postviral syndromes that lead to the eventual naming of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

A 2006 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that "cohorts in utero during the pandemic displayed reduced educational attainment, increased rates of physical disability, lower income, lower socioeconomic status, and higher transfer payments received compared with other birth cohorts."[311] A 2018 study found that the pandemic reduced educational attainment in populations.[312] The flu has also been linked to the outbreak of encephalitis lethargica in the 1920s.[313] Survivors faced an elevated mortality risk. Some survivors did not fully recover from physiological conditions resulting from infection.[314]

when you read Victorian novels and someone's eccentric spinster aunt is holed up in the family attic and referred to as an "invalid", that's where people with conditions like ME/CFS used to be in the social structure. the term "shut-in" was also used to refer to housebound people, whatever their reason for being housebound. these people have always been present in the world

[3liza]

this is actually a really good, concrete example of how just knowing stuff about history, and reading old books, can directly materially improve your quality of life. and its an experience ive had a lot because im privileged to have really intellectually curious, self-educated parents who would TELL me this stuff as a kid, and created the expectation that i would find things out for myself. im not lecturing anyone like "you need to read old boring books r your life sucks" thats not what im saying. im saying knowing concrete facts about things people think dont matter can change your life in big and small ways for the better. instead of being baffled and alienated about this subject, i have cultural context for it, i understand how it has worked in the past and can work in the present moment for me. i feel less ashamed and isolated!

i was even talking TO my dad about this a few weeks ago. and he was talking about how his wife, my stepmother, a lovely woman, was going through it a bit with some medical stuff ad she was frustrated dealing with all the recovery shit. and he said something like, "this is just a normal part of life fo everyone eventually, we used to have people we called 'invalids' in the last three centuries, people who we just took care of and weren't expected to do anything except survive and if they were lucky maybe recover. and it's not a big deal". and he's right!

but we have sort of erased this class you can inhabit from modern life, now you're just a temporarily-embarrassed Laborer, and everyone is mad at you until you recover your "wellness".

[erodingsinner]

once you learn about pseudoscience you're forever doomed to get angry when people talk about like. love languages or stockholm syndrome. but forced to stay quiet lest your lose your mind trying to correct millions of people

[the1920sinpictures]

1920 Mamie Smith and her Jazz Hounds record "Crazy Blues". The Roaring 1920s, FB.

[discoursedrome]

so "incubus" means someone who lies on top of something, and "succubus" means someone who lies underneath something, and the former also turns up in the word "incubate", which means to lie on top of an egg. To ensure closure we could therefore posit an analogous term "succubate", which would be something like this:

he is succubating.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[seikilos-stele]

Ursula K. Le Guin

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

"Immature people crave and demand moral certainty: This is bad, this is good. Kids and adolescents struggle to find a sure moral foothold in this bewildering world; they long to feel they’re on the winning side, or at least a member of the team. To them, heroic fantasy may offer a vision of moral clarity. Unfortunately, the pretended Battle Between (unquestioned) Good and (unexamined) Evil obscures instead of clarifying, serving as a mere excuse for violence — as brainless, useless, and base as aggressive war in the real world."

Ursula K Le Guin at it again, being right as always

[siquetumismo]

[turntoturnover-deactivated20250]

oh my fuckning

[iopele]

UNMUTE THIS

[luckiestcloverx]

I’m at a cafe and I started crying because I had to contain my laughter at how stupidly funny this is

[eraserheadadult]

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this